Interactive Web is an exciting place to be. It engages our students and motivates them to test their skills and creativity. These sites are some of the best at doing that for you and your students.
Moovly https://www.moovly.com/en/ A free site that does the writing hand
Rewordify http://www.redordify.com This site takes a web site or pasted text and changes the words to easier words. It can print out close activities as well.
Simplish http://www.simplish.org This site will reduce any text to a 1000 word vocabulary
Presentation Tools Flogramhttp://www.flowgram.com This allows you to add many different types of media and do a voice over track to explain it. Slidesharewww.slideshare.com This allows you to post your slideshows on the internet for others to view and download.
Prezi http://prezi.comThe This site allows you make and save presentations online.
Creative Tools
Pencamp (pencamp.com) This site allows page creation with no registration. The password is set at the time of creation.
Wordle (www.wordle.net/create) This site accepts text or an uploaded file and uses the information to create a word cloud.
Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com/ This word cloud generator can put the words into a shape.
Woices (http://woices.com/echo/new) This tool allows you to select a map location and tag it with a recording. It also allows you to upload a photo of the location. The website then generates the code to embed it in your blog or website. Sample http://woices.com/echo/607
PhotoPeach (www.photopeach.com) This tool searches your computer for photos and lets you select the ones you wish to upload. You then select music from a variety of sources, add captions for each photo and publish your presentation. http://tinyurl.com/d2ydq7
TripAdvisor Slideshow http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com
PicLit (http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx) The drag and drop tool allows you to select a photo and then pick words from the different parts of speech. These words are then dropped on the picture.
Textorizer (http://lapin-bleu.net/software/textorizer/textorizer2.php) This tool uses a photo and uses words to recreate the lines. The issue with this tool the the picture must be on the internet and have a small file size.
Voice Threads (http://voicethread.com) This tool is a mashup, it uses video from a source like youtube.com and overlays a voice track that you record. Sample http://voicethread.com/?#u27727.b29808
Jam Studio (http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm) This allows the user to create music using chords and different instruments. The user can login and have the music sent via email.
StoryBird (http://storybird.com/) This site is a colaborative stroy writing site for children. It uses gaphic story starters.
BigHugeLabs (http://bighugelabs.com ) This site has a wide variety of creative tools/templates
Cartoon Creator http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/cartoon10.swf Create multi panel cartoons
My Story Maker http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/storymaker/storymaker.swf A story creation tool that prints out to pdf.
Textivate http://www.textivate.com This site allows you to create games from your text.
Word Clouds http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
Timeline http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/%20 Create a timeline
Moovly https://www.moovly.com/en/ A free site that does the writing handRewordify http://www.redordify.com This site takes a web site or pasted text and changes the words to easier words. It can print out close activities as well.
Simplish http://www.simplish.org This site will reduce any text to a 1000 word vocabulary
Paint Programs
Mind Mapping Applications
Bubbl.us http://bubbl.us/ an online mind mapping app that allows you to use the site with out an account. that is only required if you want to save or share the mind map.
Mindmeister http://www.mindmeister.com/
Spicynodes http://www.spicynodes.org/
Graphic Organizers http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/This This site has several differnt versions.
Animation Sites
Flux Time http://www.fluxtime.com/
Full Multimedia Suites
Kerpoof htthttp://www.kerpoof.com/ Paint, movies.... the works
Aviary http://aviary.com
Collaboration Tools
Writing Tools
Titan Pad http://titanpad.com/
Type With Me http://www.typewith.me
Photo Tools
Make Panoramic photos http://www.dermandar.com
Presentation Tools
Flogram http://www.flowgram.com This allows you to add many different types of media and do a voice over track to explain it.
Slideshare www.slideshare.com This allows you to post your slideshows on the internet for others to view and download.
Prezi http://prezi.comThe This site allows you make and save presentations online.
Math Tools
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/tools_technologies/web_2_0_tools_math_educators
Study Tools
Quizlet http://quizlet.com/ Make or take a quiz. There are several "games" to play with the information
Infused Learning http://www.infuselearning.com/
Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Respond to polls with text, web or tweets.
Textivate www.textivate.com This app turns any text passage into games for use on screen or on an IWB.
Science Sites
http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/professional_development/web_2_0_science_tools
Audio Recording
Vocaroo http://vocaroo.com